Good Lord. We all came in to work to an e-mail telling us one of our co-workers was having "open heart surgery" today and would be off for a month afterward.
Half the office is annoyed we were told through an e-mail, because they think it's impersonal. (My feeling is, if you go around and tell everyone in person, it's going to take forever. If you call a meeting to announce it, that's a bit overdramatic. I'm fine with the e-mail.)
The other half of the office is annoyed that the e-mail was ridiculously vague. There is no medical procedure actually named "open heart surgery." That's just a descriptor for many, many different heart surgeries, some of which are comparatively minor, and some of which are a big damn deal. "Open heart surgery" tells us nothing other than the fact that it's something heart-related. A little information is no one's friend. Don't do that to medical editors.
Turns out it's an aortic valve replacement and a single bypass of a completely blocked artery. So, fairly major. The surgery was expected to be about 9 hours. Dang.
IN slash or THAN slash?
In. It's someone explaining why slash fans would so like a Radcliffe/Watson sex tape. Because of all the slash in it.
And even "than" would be an argument I couldn't resist getting into.
Okay, I need to go to the police station. Apparently I can't amend the report over the phone.
Eek, Steph. Good luck to your coworker.
It's someone explaining why slash fans would so like a Radcliffe/Watson sex tape. Because of all the slash in it.
Um. Huh.
Um, what? But I will say that I see far fewer squick warnings for het than I used to. Whether that speaks more to my own reading habits or to fandom or certain fandoms generally I can't say.
I do think I prefer het in my slash; that is to say, if the slash is a particular non-canon pairing being focused on then I want the rest of the characters' orientations to be the same as in canon. Not generally a fan of stories set in The World Where Everyone Is Gay.
(Exceptions made for Queer as Folk and Torchwood fic, where all the major characters really are gay or bi. And Angel, where Cordelia seems to be the lone bastion of heterosexuality...)
I'm very glad that squick warnings for het are going away. Just because it's the side of privilege doesn't mean that isn't deeply disturbing. And I'm not sure I want people *disgusted* by straight sex on my side in anything, ever.
Of course, I'm also in another argument defending breast implants, so evidently I need to get off my ass and go to the damned police station. Getting right on that.
Good luck to Steph's co-worker.
A little information is no one's friend. Don't do that to medical editors.
Isn't it a bit weird to need to know precisely what surgery your co-worker is having? I'd be okay with a friend being vague, never mind a colleague. It's all good.
Nevertheless, I hope his open thingy thingy gets closed up nice and tight and s/he's okay.
Isn't it a bit weird to need to know precisely what surgery your co-worker is having?
Yes, thank you. Although to be fair Steph's coworkers know rather more about medical issues than the average layperson, so I can understand the interest.
For myself, this is why I'd want the all-staff email to say "surgery," period, but different strokes for different folks?
